Category: Internet

FOAS is now going to reduce your tax if you support open source

Announcement from the retiring founder of http://www.foastat.org/

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FOAS is a nonprofit public benefit corporation registered in California. It has federal tax-exempt status under Internal Revenue Section 501(c)(3). FOAS has a worldwide mission to to promote free software, open access publishing, and reproducible research in statistics.

FOAS now has 501(c)(3) federal tax exempt status. All donations to FOAS, retroactively from September 2012, are now tax deductible.

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What is FOAS-  http://www.foastat.org/

The mission of the Foundation for Open Access Statistics (FOAS) is to promote free software, open access publishing, and reproducible research in statistics.

FOAS works to ensure the continued success of the Journal of Statistical Software (JSS), one of the few major open access journals that is free for both readers and authors. We also promote the use and development of free software for statistics, such as the R language and environment for computational statistics. We encourage members and the academic community at large to publish reproducible research that is publicly available online, e.g., in an open access journal or on an open access pre-print server.

You can join FOAS to show your support for free statistical software, open access publishing, and reproducible research in statistics. Membership is free and open to all. Members receive periodic email updates from FOAS, and may wish to join the FOAS-members list, join the Facebook FOAS Group, or follow FOAS on Diaspora.

Consider making a donation to FOAS. All donations are currently being used to support the operation of JSS.

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eh, Google how about routing less money through the Irish and giving some to Californian open source…

Related- cultural icon to non open source companies.

 

 

Talking on Analytics #rstats #analytics #bigdata #sas #conferences

This is a post that lists down my talks or conferences on Analytics and will be updated as I keep talking.
It also lists sponsors.

 

1) Big Data Big Analytics – http://krishnarajpm.com/bigdata/abstract.pdf Workshop on  Statistical Machine Learning and Game Theory  Approaches for Large Scale Data Analysis  9 July 2012 – 14 July 2012  Sponsored by Mathematical Sciences, Division of Science and Engineering  Research Board at Bangalore India
Department of Science & Technology Government of India. (sponsored airfare-hotel accomodation-honorium)

2) Data Analytics using the Cloud- Challenges and Opportunities for India at 1st International Symposium on Big Data and Cloud Computing Challenges(ISBCC-2014) March 27-28, 2014 VIT University, Chennai, India Sponsored by BRNS (flight)

http://chennai.vit.ac.in/isbcc/

3) Open Source Analytics at OSSCamp 2014 http://osscamp.in/

http://osscamp.in/events/6/open-source-analytics-overview-r-python-and-others

 

 

Attended-

1) First Big Data Conference -New York sponsored by Aster Data (flight-stay)

https://decisionstats.com/2011/06/24/interview-first-big-data-conference/

2) Data Mining 2009 Sponsored by SAS Institute ( flight-stay)

https://decisionstats.com/2009/10/24/sas-data-mining-2009-las-vegas/

Interviews

1) Using R in  HR Analytics -HR Tech Europe 2012  http://blog.hrtecheurope.com/2012/08/more-r-in-hr/ also http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2012/11/using-r-in-the-human-resources-department.html

2) R for Business Analytics- Analytics India Magazine

http://analyticsindiamag.com/interview-ajay-ohri-author-r-for-business-analytics/

3) Data Mining Research People Award 2010:  Data Mining Blog http://www.dataminingblog.com/data-mining-research-interview-ajay-ohri/

4) Statsjobs – April 2008 http://statjobs.blogspot.in/2008/04/interview-with-ajay-ohri-data-mining.html 

Awards-

1) Blogger of the Week Social Media Collective http://socialmediatoday.com/SMC/67268

2) Member of the Month (2 times) on Analyticbridge  $250 awarded twice

http://www.analyticbridge.com/group/memberofthemonth/forum/topics/ajay-ohri-february-2009

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If you need me to talk on analytics  – drop me a line at http://linkedin.com/in/ajayohri and I can talk.

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Talk on Open Source Analytics at OSSCamp Delhi

I presented on how open source has helped business analytics grow. This  was  at the unconference (my first unconference) at http://osscamp.in/

 

NSA and SSL

from-http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/11/nsa-heartbleed_n_5134813.html

“NSA was not aware of the recently identified vulnerability in OpenSSL, the so-called Heartbleed vulnerability, until it was made public in a private sector cybersecurity report,” the Office of the Director of National Intelligence said in a statement to HuffPost. “Reports that say otherwise are wrong.”

Thanks to Mr Snowden , NSA slide showing how NSA had cracked SSL before???

leaked-slide-shows-nsa-celebrated-victory-over-googles-security-with-a-smiley-face

http://www.businessinsider.in/Leaked-Slide-Shows-NSA-Celebrated-Victory-Over-Googles-Security-With-A-Smiley-Face/articleshow/24950436.cms

 

In an NSA presentation slide on “Google Cloud Exploitation,” however, a sketch shows where the “Public Internet” meets the internal “Google Cloud” where their data resides. In hand-printed letters, the drawing notes that encryption is “added and removed here!” The artist adds a smiley face, a cheeky celebration of victory over Google security.

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with added stuff

and from

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/05/nsa-gchq-encryption-codes-security

 

ps- Dont be Evil Google. Just give all the data to the Government 😉

Writing for kdnuggets.com

I have been writing freelance for kdnuggets.com

Its a great learning for me to be a better writer especially for analytics and programming

These are a list of articles -interviews are in bold and I will keep updating this list when there are new additions

  1. Interview: Ingo Mierswa, RapidMiner CEO on “Predaction” and Key Turning Points June 2014

  2. Guide to Data Science Cheat Sheets 2014/05/12

  3. Book Review: Data Just Right 2014/04/03
  4. Exclusive Interview: Richard Socher, founder of etcML, Easy Text Classification Startup 2014/03/31
  5. Trifacta – Tackling Data Wrangling with Automation and Machine Learning 2014/03/17
  6. Paxata automates Data Preparation for Big Data Analytics 2014/03/07
  7. etcML Promises to Make Text Classification Easy  2014/03/05
  8. Wolfram Breakthrough Knowledge-based Programming Language – what it means for Data Science? 2014/03/02

Torch Browser hits 10 million users

Torch is a delightful browser with embedded bit torrents. Even downloading any Youtube video or directly any torrent is now once click away. No wonder it hits 10 million users- and its based on the open source chrome browser. though I would want to know if it is secure enough 😉 for the boys from Maryland

Try it out here

http://www.torchbrowser.com/about

Screenshot 2014-03-30 00.26.13

How to defeat machine learning with human creativity?

I look around and I see myself surrounded by people promising a new dawn of a glorious civilization by machine learning, with perfect data capture, incredible computational and remorseless algorithms crunching to give you a glimpse of the future. Some even say a few billion here and there and you could approach a new singularity in time.
So I wonder, and I wonder, if the human race , particularly the common man, the plebians, ever stand a chance against the machine learning plutocrats.
And I am heartened by that old friend of mankind, the sheer elegant romance of random number creation.And of tools like sarcasm, and implied association using lingustic tools that no database can capture.Of for some more randomness, more romantic entropy, onwards to a brave new utopian internet in an increasingly dystopian world.
Quo Vadis, Brutus? Quo Vadis, indeed!!